Actress Julia Ormond has accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault in a new lawsuit that also accuses her agents at Creative Artists Agency, Walt Disney Pictures, and Miramax with failing to protect her and enabling Weinstein’s alleged abuse. Ormond said the disgraced producer forced her to perform oral sex on …
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Harvey Weinstein will not be retried on the charges of rape and sexual assault that a Los Angeles jury failed to reach a verdict on last year. According to The Associated Press, prosecutor Paul Thompson announced the decision at a hearing in L.A. on Tuesday, March 14. The judge dismissed …
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Will Smith flouncing onto the Dolby Theatre stage, winding up, and walloping host Chris Rock is a moment that will live in Oscar-night infamy, but it’s far from the most egregious episode in the ceremony’s 94-year history. This is an event, after all, that made nominee Hattie McDaniel sit at …
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Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to an additional 16 years in prison Thursday after the disgraced producer was found guilty of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault at his Los Angeles trial in December. At his sentencing hearing Thursday, LA County Judge Lisa Lench sentenced Weinstein to …
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Harvey Weinstein‘s lawyers filed a request on Tuesday for a new trial, over a month after the disgraced producer was convicted on rape and sexual assault charges in Los Angeles. Variety, which obtained the filing, notes that Weinstein’s attorneys have requested for the court to “reconsider its ruling,” stating in …
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Following Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles trial on sexual assault and rape charges, some jurors have opened up about the deliberations that resulted in the mixed verdict of guilty on three charges, an acquittal on another, and a mistrial on three charges. In the end, jurors ultimately found Weinstein guilty of …
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A Los Angeles jury convicted Harvey Weinstein Monday of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault involving an Italian actress he forced himself on after pushing his way into her Los Angeles hotel room during a film festival in February 2013. The sexual assault counts were forcible …
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Three women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct and assault expressed relief, and some disappointment, after the disgraced producer was hit with three guilty verdicts, but also an acquittal and two mistrials in a Los Angeles court yesterday. One of the women to speak up was Jane Doe …
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In a three-day testimony, Jane Doe No. 1 took the stand against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. On Monday, Weinstein’s attorney’s called their first three witnesses, who testified on details regarding Jane Doe No. 1’s allegations that Weinstein raped her and forced her to perform oral sex. She alleged that …
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In late February 2020, Evelyn Yang gathered at Foley Square in Manhattan with a handful of survivors in the hopes of pulling off something unprecedented. Her husband, Andrew Yang, had recently wrapped his presidential campaign, and all of the travel and scheduling demands that went along with that bid had …
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